Saturday toTuesday 19-22 June 2021

 0n Saturday morning, I flew from Crete to Athens where I met most of the workers for the conference I am helping at as well as many of the participants. Almost everyone  had arrived by Sunday evening. Since Sunday was a free day until late afternoon,  my roommate and I took a taxi to the nearest town, Eretria. It was Pentecost,  so we listened to part of a Greek Orthodox service.

 Then we walked around town to an island connected by a bridge

  There was an abandoned resort on the island with a tower at the edge.  Most of the buildings had been painted in interesting ways.

 We also walked past a lot of ruins, the temple of Apollo, a gymnasium,  and the ruins of a Hellenistic bath.

 We saw a lot of beehives near the gymnasium.

  We walked a little over 5 miles before we took a taxi back. 

Sunday and Monday mornings before breakfast we took a walk on the vicinity of the hotel. We found an interesting farm with goats and enough barking dogs to wake the entire neighborhood. And we found a fun way to get back to our hotel by walking along the water which started with us walking on rocks in the water and ended with us wading through the water.

The conference appears to be going well. I'm in the nursery, age 3 and under.  Many of these kids haven't been in a nursery in the past year and a half or longer. They don't know any of the helpers. The first session was rough, but they are already doing better. 

 Tuesday was much the same as Monday.  We went for a walk before breakfast,  babysat from 9 to 1, swam and snorkeled in the afternoon, babysat again for a couple of hours in the evening,  then ate dinner and went to bed.